Hi everyone!
We are loving our new puppy Bowser to death.  He really only has two issues, he howls, whines and cries like a wild man when we try to crate him, and he doesn't come when he is called.  It's not that he doesn't know his name, because he looks right at us, but many times he just chooses to keep doing what he's doing....whether it's walking away, or just sitting there staring at us! :)  If it wasn't so frustrtating it would be funny.  We are working on the crate thing and after reading many of the posts here I think we can lick that (haha) but I hadn't seen anyone post anything about this.  Sometimes he will run right to you, but often he just does his own thing.  He won't respond to kissy noises, clapping your hands, anything that usually calls other puppies to you.  He is now 11 weeks old, we've had him since he was 8 weeks.  He's already pretty much housebroken, and understands no and stop...there's just this little bit of ...defiance (?) that I want to figure out before he gets too big!
Sorry this was so long...any suggestions would be welcome!